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The article is interesting, but the title is click bait: “So where does that leave us in our central question of which language is the hardest to understand fr
by new299 5y ago
The article is interesting, but the title is click bait:
“So where does that leave us in our central question of which language is the hardest to understand from visual cues? “The short answer is, we don’t know,” says Masapollo.”
- JulianWasTaken 5y agoYeah bit of a disappointment... Especially given that even the paragraphs following that sentence are essentially "well maybe it's X Y or Z because people there have mustaches". I'm sure answering this question scientifically is hard but I'd love to know something like what happens if you get N native speakers from K languages and take a sentence and a paragraph from each language and ask the N native speakers what they see (and compare the results).
- aflag 5y agoIndeed, the least I was expecting was some kind of graph showing how accurate lip readers in each language are or something.
- sammorrowdrums 5y agoThe question mark in the title says it all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline... While "we don't know" is not "no" I have found subjectively that Betteridge's Law of Headlines is accurate.
- sammorrowdrums 5y ago> In the field of particle physics, the concept is known as Hinchliffe's Rule, after physicist Ian Hinchliffe, who stated that if a research paper's title is in the form of a yes–no question, the answer to that question will be "no".[39][40] The adage led into a humorous attempt at a liar's paradox by a 1988 paper, written by physicist Boris Kayser under the pseudonym "Boris Peon", which bore the title: "Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?"(Peon 1988) worth reading the Wikipedia page just for gems like this.